Lasting-machine



(No Model.)

G. W. GLIDDEN.

LASTING MACHINE.

No. 248,448. r v Patented Oct. 18,1881.

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CHARLES W. GLIDDEN, OF LYNN, ASSIGNOR TO GORDON MCKAY, TRUSTEE, OF CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

LASTlNG-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 248,448, dated October 18, 1881.

Application filed July 13, 1881. No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES W. GLIDDEN, ofLynn, Essex county, State ofMassachuset-ts, have invented an Improvement in Lasting-Machines,- of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification.

This invention in lasting-machines has for its object to provide the machine with a quarter or counter gage to gage the extent to which the quarter or counter is to extend above the inner sole or heel part of the last.

This invention is shown as embodied on a lasting-machine such as represented in United States Patent No, 231,076, dated August 10, 1880, to which reference may be had.

In this embodiment of my invention I have added to the head which carries the pressers or downholds an arm, upon which I have adjustably secured a gage, which extends across the heel of the last more or less above the highest point occupied by the bottom of the last during theopera-tion ofthe machine. This gage serves as a stop for the lower edge of the quarter or quarter and counter as the upper upon the last is placed in the machine, and positions the edge of the quarter or counter more or less above the inner sole or bottom of the last at its heel before the heel-clamp and crimping o jaws or devices at the heel are closed upon the the edges of the quarter over on the inner sole, s, on the bottom of the last, are all as usual, and will be as in the patent referred to.

My improved gage 9, made as a flat plate of metal, has a screwthreaded shank, h, extended 5 upward through a slot, on, in the gage-holding armf, and it is held thereon adj ustably by the nuts 2 3 on the said threaded shank, one being above and the other below the said arm. The

armfwill be attached to the head, which in 0 the said patent has secured to it the pressers or downholds referred to in the said patent. As shown in the drawings, this gage g, located above the last at its heel, serves as a gage or stop against which the lower edge of the quarter of the upper to or the quarter and counter stiffener thereon may extend above the face of the inner sole, 8, on the last, thus insuring the uniform amount of material above the inner sole and last to be turned over upon the inner 6o sole bythe n-ual heel-lasting jaws, slides, or plates.

I claim- 1. In a lasting-machine, a quarter or counter gage to control the distance of the edge of the quarter or counter above the last or inner sole of a shoe to be lasted, substantially as described.

2. The last and-heel clamp combined with the armf, and the quarter or counter gage g,

GHARLES W. GLIDDEN.

Witnesses G. W. GREGORY, L. F. CONNOR. 

